Who among us has not experienced Microsoft’s legendary “blue screen of death”? For all but the most technically inclined, a few blue screen errors would be enough to throw the computer out of the window.

According to Apple, that blue screen is the number one reason to switch to Mac. Tiger doesn’t crash.

Built by the same folks who designed its rock-solid operating system and its award-winning applications, the Mac always starts up and never lets you down.
-from Apple - Switch

Avoiding the hassle by switching to a Mac sounds great, right? But is the Apple Macintosh computer, and its OS X Tiger operating system, really hassle-free?

In the more than two months that I have owned my iMac G5, it has never crashed. It is rock solid, and very stable.

And every day I am impressed with it.

But my iMac is still a complex piece of equipment. Not everything runs flawlessly 100% of the time.

One of the neat things about the Mac, though, is that the OS X operating system makes it easy for you to keep working. If a program is ever behaving strangely, all you need to do is click on another running application, and select the “Force Quit” option from the Apple menu.

That’s it. OS X terminates the program, and nothing else skips a beat.

It just works.